Living Scythians: R1a Z93 - Turkic peoples
The descendants of the Scythians are Turkic: „Contemporary descendants of western Scythian groups are found among various groups in the Caucasus and Central Asia, while similarities to eastern Scythian are found to be more widespread, but almost exclusively among Turkic language speaking (formerly) nomadic groups, particularly from the Kipchak branch of Turkic languages ...“
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